00:00 Welcome to this special program of One India and Maharashtra Cha Lekha Joka.
00:06 One India team has reached Mumbai.
00:09 The elections have been held here but the election atmosphere does not stop here.
00:13 Because this state is going to elections in just a few months.
00:17 The assembly elections will also happen here in Maharashtra.
00:20 And joining me today on the broadcast is not just anyone but Maharashtra's Chief Minister, Eknath Shinde.
00:26 Eknath Sir, thank you for taking the time to talk to us and One India.
00:30 Thank you.
00:31 The assembly elections are going on.
00:34 Six steps have been taken.
00:36 This time it has crossed 400 steps.
00:38 I have spoken to many BJP leaders and they have said that this is not a slogan but a pledge.
00:44 This is a commitment.
00:47 So how is Maharashtra supporting this?
00:51 We have complete faith in Maharashtra and we believe that we give importance to development.
01:00 And that is why in the last two years, so much work has been done in this state.
01:06 Like you said, Nagpur-Mumbai-Samrudiya Express, Atal-Setu, the single longest sea bridge of 50 km.
01:13 Today, the work of coastal highway and metro, which were not just big but were huge.
01:20 We have started that.
01:23 We have given them a platform and we have made them move forward.
01:28 And we have made them move very fast.
01:30 And we have taken many decisions for farmers, women, and for the industry.
01:39 And that is why we believe that people support those who work.
01:46 We support those who do development.
01:50 This is our agenda.
01:51 We are fighting this election on the issue of development.
01:55 On the issue of development.
01:56 Modi ji has also raised this point and if I say Maharashtra model, it is seen as a successful model in India.
02:02 You talk about the Gujarat model, the UP model, Maharashtra model has always been a successful model.
02:08 In that, if your government is said to be for the people of Maharashtra, especially for the farmers, how do you see it?
02:13 Our government has changed the NDRF rules and made it double.
02:28 The limit of 2 hectares has been increased to 3 hectares.
02:31 The farmer will get more money.
02:34 It will cover it.
02:35 Which is a big loss.
02:37 So, if we say the government of the farmer, how will we keep the farmer hungry?
02:41 Secondly, like the Prime Minister gets Rs. 6000 annually, we have added Rs. 6000 to the farmer's honour scheme.
02:49 He gets Rs. 12,000 now.
02:51 We pay the premium in crop insurance.
02:54 The farmer has to pay Rs. 1.
02:56 Only.
02:57 That is their premium and the rest is paid by the government.
03:00 Government pays.
03:01 And we have made very supportive schemes for the farmers.
03:04 That benefits the farmers.
03:06 And today, our government has approved 122 big schemes in 2 years.
03:16 The previous government approved 4 schemes.
03:21 And our government has approved 122.
03:25 Millions of hectares of land will be irrigated today.
03:30 Will we get water?
03:32 Yes.
03:33 Our government has done this.
03:35 The water that is going to be wasted.
03:37 Yes, we have treated it.
03:38 Not that, we are doing river connecting.
03:42 We will divert it to the dry areas.
03:49 We will divert it.
03:50 We are asking for help from the centre.
03:52 And definitely, in the next few years, we will water the drought prone areas.
04:05 We have given priority to the farmers.
04:08 This encourages the farmers.
04:14 We used to hear about the example of Odisha.
04:16 There was an example of Maharashtra too.
04:18 But the environment has changed in Maharashtra.
04:20 I don't think the opposition will be able to support the development.
04:28 The same example has been used in Maharashtra and the whole country.
04:31 They won't talk to us about development.
04:34 Because they were against development.
04:37 Development is anti-development.
04:39 Government.
04:40 What will they say to us?
04:42 They will be in the red tape.
04:44 They can't catch us.
04:45 They will say that wherever we go, we are developing.
04:53 Rahul Gandhi and Kashmir's Omar Abdullah have said that we should be careful with Pakistan.
05:03 They have the atom bomb.
05:04 How do you see this?
05:06 Because the BJP government gives priority to national security.
05:10 We should be ashamed.
05:15 People who speak about Pakistan, sing praises of Pakistan, eat salt here and sing praises of Pakistan.
05:22 Do such people have the right to live in this country?
05:26 Today, people like Modi ji.
05:29 Modi ji says that we will develop the country.
05:32 We will strengthen the economy.
05:34 He did it.
05:35 He brought it from 11th to 5th.
05:36 He is going to bring it to the 3rd.
05:38 Modi ji is the one who made the country proud.
05:40 And these people speak against the country.
05:43 They defame the country.
05:46 Today, they are speaking about Pakistan.
05:49 Today, we will see.
05:51 Farooq Abdullah has the atom bomb.
05:54 Is India sitting like this?
05:56 Modi ji is here.
05:58 India is not helpless.
06:00 India is strong.
06:01 Because Modi ji is the Prime Minister here.
06:03 Modi ji has said that earlier, you know,
06:08 the army that fought the terrorists at the border in Kashmir,
06:15 they used to be beheaded and taken to Pakistan.
06:18 Do you dare now?
06:20 No, now it is enough.
06:22 Now, Pulwama has been given a surgical strike in Kalakot.
06:25 Modi ji said that if you act with us,
06:28 if Pakistan needs you, then we will enter Pakistan and kill you.
06:32 We need this courage.
06:34 We need this courage.
06:36 One more big thing has happened in Kashmir, that Article 370.
06:39 The opposition, especially the Congress,
06:42 repeatedly says that this is wrong.
06:44 But we are seeing the change.
06:46 Many film stars are going to Mumbai and shooting there.
06:49 So how will you see this?
06:51 This Kashmir is our heaven.
06:53 This is heaven.
06:55 Today, there is 370.
06:58 Who dared to remove it?
07:00 No one had even thought of it.
07:02 What did Rahul Gandhi say?
07:04 A river of blood will flow, bombs will explode,
07:07 there will be a war. What happened?
07:09 Under the leadership of Modi ji,
07:11 our courageous and very powerful,
07:15 traitorous leader, Amit Shah,
07:19 he, Amit Bhai,
07:22 what do you call it,
07:25 even a bird cannot fly.
07:27 It can kill.
07:29 It can kill and now there is 370.
07:31 Master stroke.
07:33 Today people are roaming there,
07:35 taking land,
07:37 and there is a complete development.
07:40 So, what is all this?
07:43 They are talking about Pakistan.
07:46 Sir, look, the opposition,
07:49 their strategy, I think, needs to be reworked.
07:52 Sir, in your opinion.
07:54 We should not talk about treachery.
07:58 Absolutely. At least in that matter,
08:00 it should be touched.
08:02 In that matter, these people,
08:04 our citizens, they do not like Pakistan at all.
08:07 If you talk about Pakistan,
08:09 it will be given an equal response.
08:11 Sir, it was a very good thing,
08:13 we talked about 370.
08:15 In your state, there are many religious places,
08:18 there is Shirdi, there is Siddivinayak,
08:20 Ayodhya has also become a new temple.
08:22 I went there and saw the enthusiasm among the people.
08:25 In your state, many things have gone there,
08:27 and have gone from the entire country.
08:29 Do you think that because of that,
08:31 public sentiment has come with the government?
08:34 Look, it was the dream of millions of Ram devotees.
08:38 Our Hindu Raja Samrat Baba Thackerayji used to say,
08:41 one day make me Prime Minister.
08:43 I will make Ram Mandir and remove 370.
08:46 I wanted to come on that.
08:48 I have done both these things.
08:50 Today, I had to wait for 500 years,
08:52 I had to wait,
08:54 Modi ji had to become Prime Minister.
08:57 Everything has become possible.
08:59 So, people are happy, right?
09:03 Absolutely.
09:04 So, who gets the credit for this?
09:06 Modi ji gets the credit.
09:08 So, why won't people call Modi ji,
09:10 Modi, Modi, Modi?
09:12 Rahul Gandhi opposes,
09:14 he did not even go to the inauguration,
09:16 in the election.
09:18 Many leaders of Congress decided not to go.
09:21 The petitioner Ansari, he went.
09:24 Yes, those who went against him.
09:26 They went.
09:27 Yes, yes.
09:28 Sir, look, when we see the role of Congress,
09:32 these are some national issues.
09:34 In your state, Maharashtra,
09:36 Congress was a part of the Shiv Sena.
09:39 If I want to know from you,
09:41 when you separated from the Shiv Sena,
09:44 a very big reason was being seen,
09:46 that the Uddhav Thackeray government
09:48 came with Congress and NCP,
09:50 you were against them.
09:51 Now, more than half of the NCP members
09:53 have come with you.
09:54 How do you maintain this balance?
09:56 How do you think,
09:57 how far has this been justified?
09:59 What they have done is,
10:00 they have broken the Thackeray's thinking.
10:03 Okay.
10:04 And they have left it.
10:06 Congress, who insulted Savarkar,
10:08 Rahul Gandhi sat with them.
10:10 They sat with Farooq Abdullah.
10:12 Congress, who insults our martyrs,
10:15 sat with them.
10:16 These people in Bombspot,
10:20 they are taking part in the propaganda.
10:23 In their propaganda,
10:24 the Pakistan flag is fluttering.
10:26 What is all this?
10:28 This poor division.
10:30 They have changed the thinking.
10:32 They have changed the thinking
10:34 of Bahadur Sir Thackeray.
10:36 They have broken it,
10:37 that's why we have left them.
10:39 You have left them.
10:41 Now, very soon,
10:42 elections are going to be held in your state.
10:44 Will you get the same support as in 2019,
10:46 or will you get the same support as before,
10:48 or do you think that because of the division
10:50 in the party, votes will be divided?
10:52 Look, what is our aim now?
10:54 To make PM Modi Ji the PM for the third time.
10:57 Okay.
10:58 And by winning more seats than Maharashtra,
11:00 we will strengthen PM Modi Ji's hands.
11:03 This is our focus.
11:04 Okay.
11:05 Right?
11:06 And whom will people vote for?
11:08 The one who will work.
11:09 The one who will work, simple.
11:10 Or the one who will oppose the work.
11:13 Will vote for the one who will oppose,
11:15 or vote for the one who will work?
11:17 Simple, right?
11:18 Because they have completely
11:20 destroyed the work force.
11:22 This was negativity,
11:23 we have changed it to positivity.
11:25 This has brought prosperity in the state.
11:27 Today, there are jobs coming in the state,
11:29 people are getting work,
11:30 we are helping the farmers,
11:32 we are empowering the women,
11:33 we are giving employment to the youth,
11:35 so whom will people vote for?
11:37 Those who sit at home,
11:39 or those who do Facebook Live.
11:41 Facebook Live is a good thing.
11:43 People who go to the field will get employment.
11:45 Absolutely.
11:46 People who are connected to the land.
11:47 We are the people who are connected to the land,
11:49 and we are the people who know the ground reality.
11:52 Yes.
11:53 Just sitting at home,
11:55 the work doesn't work.
11:56 Okay.
11:57 The government cannot run it,
11:58 the state cannot run it.
12:00 Come sir, I will take one last question,
12:02 and again,
12:03 I am paying attention to your
12:04 Vidhan Sabha elections.
12:06 Maharashtra and especially Mumbai,
12:08 is a magical city,
12:10 a city of dreams.
12:12 In your state, in your city,
12:14 many people come from outside states to work.
12:17 And they are not coming from today,
12:18 they are coming from a long time.
12:19 Along with that,
12:20 there is also a question of Maratha reservation.
12:22 How will you balance that?
12:24 You have your motto, "Sabka Sabka Sabka Vikas".
12:26 But what do the people here feel?
12:28 How will they be given their share?
12:30 Look,
12:31 no one sleeps hungry in Mumbai.
12:34 Yes.
12:35 Mumbai is an international city.
12:37 Mumbai is a financial hub.
12:39 How was it needed?
12:41 How is it today?
12:42 We are bringing change in that.
12:44 Today we are developing Mumbai.
12:46 Yes, yes, yes.
12:47 In Mumbai, we are making Mumbai free of potholes.
12:50 We are building roads made of concrete.
12:52 Beautification is going on.
12:54 We are reducing pollution.
12:55 Today, we are increasing the health facilities here.
12:59 And after coming here, people will see that it is Mumbai.
13:02 We are doing the work of giving Mumbai as it is.
13:06 The people who had the right to give the Maratha reservation,
13:12 they did not give it.
13:14 They became the leaders of the Maratha society.
13:20 They became the government.
13:22 But the Maratha society remained the same.
13:25 Okay, absolutely.
13:26 Devendraji was the Chief Minister.
13:28 I was also in the government.
13:30 Then we gave the reservation.
13:33 We protected it in the High Court.
13:35 The government changed in the Supreme Court.
13:38 The Mahavikas Agadhi came.
13:40 Yes, yes.
13:41 He went to Thandhe Basti.
13:43 He cancelled it.
13:44 Yes, he cancelled it.
13:45 Then our government came.
13:47 First, we took the Maratha reservation in our hands.
13:50 We re-established the backward commission.
13:53 We employed 2-3 lakh people on daily work.
13:56 We did an extensive detailed survey.
13:59 We proved that the Maratha society is socially,
14:01 educationally backward.
14:04 And we gave them 10% reservation.
14:08 We called the assembly and gave it.
14:11 Yes, yes.
14:12 The people who had to give the reservation in the High Court,
14:16 they opposed it.
14:18 They went to the court.
14:19 But the court did not give a stay.
14:21 Today, the Maratha reservation has started.
14:24 In the Maratha Wada,
14:26 the work of giving the Kunbi certificate,
14:29 no one did that.
14:31 Our government did it.
14:33 We formed the Justice Hindai Committee.
14:36 Today, the work of giving the Kunbi certificate has started.
14:40 We have fought this battle.
14:42 To give justice to the Maratha society.
14:44 And I request everyone,
14:47 that whatever you have done,
14:49 the Maratha society,
14:51 it is in front of you.
14:53 And whatever you have to do, we will do that too.
14:55 Right.
14:56 The society that does not do injustice to other societies,
15:01 by reducing them,
15:03 and not reducing them,
15:05 the Maratha society,
15:06 its right,
15:07 is justice.
15:08 Absolutely.
15:09 Definitely.
15:10 Mr. Shinde,
15:11 to talk to One India,
15:13 to keep your thoughts,
15:14 and in a balancing act,
15:16 running such a big Raju,
15:17 is not an easy task.
15:19 Thank you very much.
15:20 And our best wishes to you and your party,
15:22 for the upcoming elections,
15:24 and especially for 4th June.
15:25 Thank you.
15:26 Thank you.
15:27 So that was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra,
15:30 Eknath Shinde,
15:31 in conversation with One India.
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